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Kim Man-jung

Died in 1692

Kim Man-jung was born in 1637, a few weeks after his father's death. According to the Korean institute in charge of translations, his father had fallen at Ganghwa during the Manchu invasion, and his mother, of the Yun family of Haepyeong, raised him in poverty, copying borrowed books for him; he placed first in the examination in 1665. He rose to ministerial office under King Sukjong, but factional struggles brought him exile, to Seoncheon in 1686 and then to Namhae in 1689. He died in this last place of banishment in 1692.

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